Local Arts

It was a good year for the Driftwood Players.

David Gogo warmed up the winter in 2004 and he's set to do it again. On Saturday, Feb. 10, David Gogo reappears at Roberts Creek Hall for another sizzling session of delta blues in a fundraiser for Dakota Ridge Winter Recreation Society.

The first reading of the Suns-hine Coast Arts Council's spring series will be held at the Arts Centre in Sechelt on Friday, Feb. 9, at 8 p.m. Admission is free, courtesy of Canada Council.

What will the Sunshine Coast arts, culture and heritage scene look like in the year 2017? In the next couple of months the community will have an opportunity to discuss and answer that question.

Outside the Raven's Cry Theatre last Sunday all was dark and gloomy. Inside, all was golden. Sara Davis Buechner, pianist, was giving a concert for the Coast Recital Society's full house of classical music fans.

Raven's Cry Theatre will be the first independent theatre in North America to screen live, via satellite and in high definition, productions from the Metropolitan Opera's current season.

Twelve women artists from all parts of the Coast are now at work on an unusual project - painting female torsos cast in cement in support of breast cancer awareness.

The annual January carnival/salsa fundraising dance for the Gibsons Landing Jazz Festival, now in its ninth year, is being held Saturday, Jan. 20, at Roberts Creek Hall.

Daniel Bolshoy is committed to bringing classical guitar to the attention of audiences everywhere. He is regularly praised for his friendly and informative spoken introductions and progressive programming of solo and chamber music.

The 20th anniversary of the Friends of the Gallery show (FOG) opened at the Sunshine Coast Arts Centre in Sechelt this week with the work of 80 participants, one from each artist, that tend toward the colourful and exceptional, with just a smattering